Fisheries Educational Workshop
Lecturers present fisheries management "Tools in the Toolbox"

March 14, 2006 Contact: Monica Allard Cox
For immediate release Tel.: (401) 874-6937

The goal of fisheries management is to preserve fish stocks for the future, while keeping fishermen employed. Two experts will discuss recent developments in using sometimes-controversial management tools that attempt to achieve this goal at a workshop on March 27, 2006, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Corless Auditorium at the University of Rhode Island (URI) Graduate School of Oceanography Narragansett Bay Campus.

Jon Sutinen, URI environmental and natural resource economics professor, and
Robert Pomeroy, a Connecticut Sea Grant Extension specialist and University of Connecticut associate professor of agriculture and resource economics, will discuss Marine Protected Areas, co-management, community-based management, and harvesting cooperatives and their consequences-on stocks, on the fishing economy, and on the fishermen and fishing communities-based on actual experiences.

This workshop is the fourth in a series on fisheries management issues partially funded by the R.I. Department of Environmental Management and Rhode Island Sea Grant. For more information, contact Laura Skrobe, Rhode Island Sea Grant Sustainable Fisheries Extension Specialist, at (401) 874-9360.

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